Word: totalitarianisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real issue, then, is whether or not agreements are to be carried out in good faith, whether or not we are still willing to tolerate differences of opinion, whether or not we stoop to totalitarian measures, be they called Communist of Fascist. And in regard to this question, I think, we should all be of one mind. Ludwig Edelstein, Professor of Greek, University of California
...Fanatics. Orwell's purely literary essays are bound by a common thread of dislike for those excesses of thought, even the excesses of such greats as Tolstoy and Swift, which fringe on totalitarian fanaticism. In two brilliant essays he shows how scorn and lack of pity led Swift to portray the ideal Houyhnhnm society as a soulless mechanism, and how Tolstoy's harsh morality blinded him to the truth of Shakespeare's tragedies...
...resolution brought a protest from Uruguayan delegate Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat. Said Fabregat, "Nothing has changed in Spain . . . The same totalitarian regime still exists." It was also opposed by the U.S.S.R. and its satellites. But with the support of the U.S., Canada, Arab nations and most Latin American countries, the move to recognize the "reality" of the Spanish situation seemed sure to pass both the U.N. Special Political Committee and the General Assembly...
...painful, powerful picture of concentration-camp barbarism records a horror intimately known to millions; 2) its villain is, conveniently, neither Fascism nor Communism but a machine age which has dried up love and compassion, and 3) the U.S. is presented as a rich, prodigal but heartless partner of the totalitarian in the diabolical job of crushing the individual...
Such enthusiasm is well justified. Sinc 1947, when three College men recognized the urgent need to teach intelligent Europeans about America, the unique school has grown in effectiveness as a center of American culture in the former totalitarian nation of Austria...